Christie (London)
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern GKGWRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10293
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 16/09/2010 — Christie (London) (register-of-tartans, record)
Created to express the designer's pride in his Scottish heritage. Colours: muted white to represent purity and innocence and to reflect his love of skiing; crimson red to reflect the colours of two of his schools (St. Andrew’s College, Aurora and Cass Business School, London); azure blue to recall Scotland and the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity's colours; green to represent Ireland, nature and the environment; black to represent his interest in and membership of the Freemasons; gold to represent love, wisdom and prosperity. The colours blue, red and gold also reflect the livery of the Worshipful Company of World Traders. - 16th Sept. 2010 — Christie (London) (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Created for his own use, and that of future generations of his family, to express the designer's pride in his Scottish heritage. Colours: muted white to represent purity and innocence and to reflect his love of ski-ing; crimson red to reflect the livery of the Worshipful Company of World Traders and his high school colours; azure blue to recall Scotland and the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity's colours; green to represent nature and the environment; black to represent his interest in and membership of the Freemasons; gold to represent love, wisdom and prosperity. Designed for family members and supporters of the family to wear.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 16/09/2010 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 10293
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10293
Thread count
Y/10 K4 G8 LB36 R50 W/10
One full sett is 216 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s6/y5k2g4lb18r25w5~x2/